Breeding Sussex Chickens (Colour Genetics)

[Sussex123]

I wanted to create this post because i can not find much information on breeding sussex chickens. So if I breed a lavender sussex rooster to a coronation sussex hen. What percent of each colour would I get. Would I get good colour chicks. I also have a silver sussex rooster who was the offspring of a lavender hen and rooster and I breed it with a silver sussex hen what coloured offspring would I get from them.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You're not from the US are you?
You're talking colors I don't know that we have here.
Lavender.....solid lavender color?
Silver..... Silver duckwing color?
Coronation.... Lavender Columbian pattern.

Also curious about "silver sussex rooster who was the offspring of a lavender hen and rooster."
You saying from a lavender hen and a lavender rooster?

 

[keesmom]

You're not from the US are you?
You're talking colors I don't know that we have here.
Lavender.....solid lavender color?
Silver..... Silver duckwing color?
Coronation.... Lavender Columbian pattern.

Also curious about "silver sussex rooster who was the offspring of a lavender hen and rooster."
You saying from a lavender hen and a lavender rooster?

The silvers have a birchen-like pattern. Or at least that's what I've always understood.

If the OP is in the UK, Coronation coloration could mean blue Columbian instead of the lavender Columbian in the US.

I don't understand how one could get a silver sussex from a pair of lavenders either...

 

[Sussex123]

These are some photos of some that i got from the web but they look just like mine. No i am not from the U.S i live in Australia. The first two photos are of the coronation, third one is the lavenders and the fourth were of the silver sussex. The breeder i got them from told my since she did not have any lavender sussex roosters at the time that the silver sussex rooster was from a lavender rooster and hen. The lavender sussex I believe have the chance of them going back to the silver sussex because you have to mate a coronation sussex to a silver sussex to get a lavender. You will have to breed them for a few generation to get a lavender. Does anybody know what would happen if I breed a lavender sussex rooster to a coronation sussex hen. What percent of each colour would I get. Would I get good colour chicks. I also have a silver sussex rooster who was the offspring of a lavender hen and rooster and I breed it with a silver sussex hen what coloured offspring would I get from them.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Very confusing and you've been misinformed.
Lavender X lavender will never produce a silver.
Lavender X lavender breeding will never go back to silver.
Pure Coronation X silver will not give you a lavender. If you kept crossing for generations you could get there but that's many years and many throw away chicks.
Your silver rooster could not come from two lavender. A silver rooster X silver hen will produce all silver offspring.
Not sure on coronation because I dont know a lot about the Columbian gene. All chicks from a coronation. X lavender will produce chicks with lavender color. I'm guessing mostly solid lavender but not positive.
Once you start crossing all these its going to become a mess with future offspring and breeding if you don't understand the genetics. You're going to have birds carrying genes unseen.
Wish I was more help but some of what you were told isn't true and some is just confusing.

 

[pnelms]

The Australian Sussex Club has a site that lists Sussex and other poultry standards. I recent looked at the standards presented and there are no standards for lavender Sussex chickens. So apparently they are not currently recognized in Australia. I recently hatched 4 "pure bred" Light Sussex chicks, but one is clearly a Coronation. I've been assuming the Coronation is a dilute of the Light coloration, but if I'm wrong tell me so.

 

[SarahSmalls]

I wanted to create this post because i can not find much information on breeding sussex chickens. So if I breed a lavender sussex rooster to a coronation sussex hen. What percent of each colour would I get. Would I get good colour chicks. I also have a silver sussex rooster who was the offspring of a lavender hen and rooster and I breed it with a silver sussex hen what coloured offspring would I get from them.

 

[SarahSmalls]

I know this post is a couple of years old now, but did you ever do the lavendar/Sussex cross? What did they come out like???

 

[Lansdowne]

I know this post is a couple of years old now, but did you ever do the lavendar/Sussex cross? What did they come out like???

Did you get any responses to your light x lavender question? I was wondering the same thing and can’t find information on this anywhere.

 

[nicalandia]

Did you get any responses to your light x lavender question? I was wondering the same thing and can’t find information on this anywhere.

This is quite common(not Lavender x Light but on same genetic background)


Lavender = E/E, lav/lav = Basically a solid Black chicken with recessive Lavender dilution

Light = eWh/eWh, Lav+/Lav+ Co/Co, basically a Silver Columbian based on wheaten.

Such Cross will produce E/eWh, Lav+/lav, Co/co+ and most likely both Silver based S/S. So This cross will produce Black Chicks with white underbelly and when they grow up they will produce Pseudo Silver Birchen(Silver phenotype in Sussex) looking birds.

If you had to guess how they look, just look at what Black Sex links look(which are E/eWh, Lav+/Lav+, Co/co+, s+/) but most likely silver based instead of gold